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"Game Day" GIS Application Improves Stadium Security for Home Football Games
A new Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application for event management was tested at the first home football game in Lane Stadium on the Virginia Tech campus. This application, which allows police and emergency responders to digitally track and view security and safety activities using a web-enabled, spatial platform, was developed by Seth Peery, Sr. GIS Architect for Enterprise GIS; Mahesh Narayanamurthi, Industrial and Systems Engineering graduate student; Luke Ward, Technology Manager; and Richard Phipps, Systems Administrator, all working under the department of Converged Technologies for Security, Safety and Resilience reporting to the Vice President for Information Technology, Erv Blythe. The map displays GIS layers for incidents, rescue squad and police resources, stadium seating location references, and interior space floor plans overlaid on top of an aerial view of the stadium and surrounding areas. » More
Enterprise GIS Software Training
Enterprise GIS continues its commitment to provide advanced GIS training to the Virginia Tech community by offering five courses through the Fall 2011 Faculty Development Institute. Refer to Enterprise GIS Software Training for a full listing of our offerings. A limited number of seats are still available, and faculty have the option of signing up for individual classes if the entire track does not fit into their schedule.
Important information regarding the university's password change
requirement:
Enterprise GIS users, As all of you have no doubt been made aware through multiple channels over the past few months, the University is requiring all students, faculty and staff to change their PID, HOKIES domain, and Oracle passwords by July 1. If you've not changed your password by July 1 (and have not changed it since July 1,2010), you'll be temporarily locked out of systems that depend on these credentials (e-mail, exchange, domain logins, etc.). Please see http://www.awareness.security.vt.edu/ for more detailed information on the password change initiative. » More
Enterprise GIS
The Enterprise GIS Research and Development Administration Group was created under the aegis of "Strategic Partnership Initiatives" reporting to the Vice President for Information Technology at Virginia Tech. This is considered a strategic initiative of IT for serving the Virginia Tech research and administration, as well as a limited selection of external partners who are associated with the Commonwealth of Virginia and its localities. The group was formed in the Fall of 2008 as a means of addressing the need for storage and hosting of GIS data and for access and training for GIS tools and other resources. The intent is to create efficiencies of scale and significant cost savings to university departments by leveraging the latest technologies in data hosting and storage as well as the expertise of the IT professionals in the IT organization who manage the university's computing and networking functions on a daily basis. 
Enterprise GIS Software Training
Upon request, we will provide training to departments on the server-side GIS products that we manage (ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE, Google Maps, Google Earth Enterprise).
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